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Tenor John Tiranno has been called a “clear-voiced tenor” and has had his singing called “ardent and mellifluous” by The New York Times. Upcoming engagements include his Santa Fe Symphony debut as tenor soloist in Handel’s Messiah.

2017 appearances included the world premiere of Gisle Kverndokk’s opera Upon this handful of Earth (a co-production between Sacred Music in a Sacred Space and the New York Opera Society), Beethoven’s 9th Symphony (Greenwich Village Orchestra), and a return to Carnegie Hall to sing Handel’s Messiah (Masterwork Chorus).

Additional international appearances include his European debut in Rome singing the Saint Saëns Requiem (Festival Internazionale di Musica e Arte Sacra), his South American debut in São Paulo singing Mozart’s Missa in C (at Auditório Ibirapuera), and Mahler’s Symphony No. 8 in Ontario, Canada (Brott Music Festival). World premiere performances include creating two additional roles for Kverndokk - Trouble in Max and Moritz and the Man in the Mirror in Supersize Girl (both with New York Opera Society), as well as singing the world premiere of Gregory Walker’s The Passion According to St. Toscanini (Boulder Philharmonic).

Other credits include the Mozart’s Requiem and U.S. premiere of Juraj Filas’ Oratio Spei – Requiem (Sacred Music in a Sacred Space), Handel’s Messiah (Dayton Philharmonic), Paul Moravec’s The Blizzard Voices (Oratorio Society of New York), Bach’s St. John Passion (with Kent Tritle at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine), Frederic in Pirates of Penzance (Opera Roanoke), the roles of Moussah and Ferkamnat in Fervaal (American Symphony Orchestra), Lord Tolloller in Iolanthe (Nashville Opera), Il Maestro delle Acque in La Nave (Teatro Grattacielo), and Beppe in Pagliacci (New York Grand Opera).